Taken from Daily Living For Seniors @ Oneplace.com
Author Norman Cousins told of being hospitalized with a rare, crippling disease in his book, The Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient. When Cousins was diagnosed as incurable, he decided to check out of the hospital. He was fully aware of the harmful effects that negative emotions can have on the body, but Cousins reasoned that the reverse was true and decided to do something about it.
Once he was home, he determined to take action against the disease that was spreading through his body. He borrowed a movie projector and prescribed his own treatment.
Each day, he watched Marx Brothers films and old “Candid Camera” reruns. It wasn’t long before Cousins realized that ten minutes of laughter provided two hours of pain-free sleep. Amazingly, his incurable disease was eventually reversed. His victory appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine and afterward, he received more than 3,000 letters from appreciative physicians throughout the world.
Proverbs 17:22
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Taken from About.com
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Ingredients:
1 (16 ounces) can pumpkin (2 cups)
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream, softened
1 box ginger snaps
Preparation:
Combine pumpkin, sugar, salt, ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add pecans. Fold pumpkin mixture into ice cream or vice-versa.
Line a 9 x 13-inch pan or Pyrex dish with one-half of the ginger snaps. Top with one-half of the pumpkin ice cream mixture. Cover with the remaining ginger snaps and spread the balance of the pumpkin mixture over the second layer of ginger snaps.
Freeze. When firm, cut into squares. Top with whipped cream or Cool Whip.
Yield: 18 servings
Recipe Source: Best of the Best from Texas: Selected Recipes from Texas’ Favorite Cookbooks by Gwen McKee (Quail Ridge Press)